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Oscar-Snubbed Docs Get Renewed Shot At Glory With Emmy Nominations

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Emmy nominations in the doc categories are giving films passed over by the Oscars a shot at some trophies of their own.Dick Johnson Is Dead, directed by Kirsten Johnson, 76 Days, from director Hao Wu, and Welcome to Chechnya, directed by David France, earned nominations in the juried category of Outstanding Merit in Documentary Filmmaking.

Each of those films had made the Oscar Documentary Feature shortlist earlier in the year, but didn’t earn Oscar nominations.The nod to 76 Days, a film set in hospitals in Wuhan, China during the city’s initial lockdown after the outbreak of Covid-19, marks the first Emmy nomination for MTV Documentary Films, the division headed by Sheila Nevins.“It’s a great honor to be nominated for an Emmy,” Wu said in

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